OK, here is a text effect I came up with yesterday while making some crappy design and since it turned out pretty nice, I decided to make a tut about it. So, we will be making this nice oily text:

So, start off by making a new canvas, and fill it with a dark background colour, we used black.

type the word u like… we used customized GauFont PopMagic.

go to layer >> layer styles >> blending options, and set the following settings:

• Inner Shadow

• Inner Glow

and also…

• Bevel and Emboss

• Contour Line Inside

• Contour

• Satin

• Colour Overlay

After all these settings, u will have this:

Now, duplicate your layer.

Select the upper (copied) layer and go to Filter >> Blur >> Gaussian Blur, and apply THIS BLUR

Reduce the opacity of the blurred layer to about 70%.

That’s it, hope u like the result, please post any questions u have!

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